No ground troops to Iraq. Now we have to define troops. What the president really means is no fighting men on the ground. While even that is not the entire truth but the glaring fact left out of the discussion is that the Pentagon has called for a bunch of new contractors to go to Iraq instead of military troops.
No matter what you call the folks doing the fighting , dead is dead , so there will be Americans dying on the ground in Iraq as there will be more of in Afghanistan.
The cost of a military type is about $19000 /yr while a contractor can cost $150K to $250K . With no real numbers shown us and certainly no costs are we allowed to know but you can easily see contractors cost a lot of bucks. But we must be putting them in country without shoes, since we aren't going to have boots on the ground.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
PIVOT TO ASIA ANOTHER NEOCON WET DREAM
The downplayed reason of the Pivot is to prepare for a war with China. Oh now there is a good idea.
To grease the way for this final confrontation we are poking sticks at the Russian bear by leading Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia as a way to get our anti missile defense closer to the Russian border. Brilliant thinking from the Neocons in thinking they can actually put up a system that gives you first strike capability. Insane shit at best. If the big red button was pushed and your guess on how many of their missiles would achieve launch , it would be too late to say oops. Every military decision the neocons have launched in the last 40 years has ended up a disaster.
If they are successful in this latest attempt of world domination it could very well be the end of earth .
To grease the way for this final confrontation we are poking sticks at the Russian bear by leading Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia as a way to get our anti missile defense closer to the Russian border. Brilliant thinking from the Neocons in thinking they can actually put up a system that gives you first strike capability. Insane shit at best. If the big red button was pushed and your guess on how many of their missiles would achieve launch , it would be too late to say oops. Every military decision the neocons have launched in the last 40 years has ended up a disaster.
If they are successful in this latest attempt of world domination it could very well be the end of earth .
DUMB AND DUMBER
School boards or Administrators are pretty well in a tie for being the dumbest folks on the planet. Damn near daily you see reports of misdeeds authorized by these Neanderthals against our kids we send to their care daily.
Today's offering takes the cake for stupid rules. This school board has forbidden the use of Chapstick on school grounds because it is an over the counter drug. Oh yes , it's a gateway drug to what I am not sure.
STORY IS HERE
Quite often you see stories on how overpaid/lazy/dumb/unqualified for their jobs from the mouths of (most of which) require nothing more than a political mouth spouting uneducated plans for their district that go way past stupid. These teacher that others like to complain about have to live with stupid rules like these on a daily basis trying to make the teachers so busy policing policies they had no say in formulating.
Administrators who like their jobs gladly enforce the stupid rules passed by these boards and then add their own brand of bullshit to the mix.
Dead brains are not limited to local folks , no the gang in Washington comes up with their own brand of stupid. The New Lunch program is a great example of unthinking done by our leaders. Any one who ever thought you can get kids to eat stuff they don't like as a steady diet must not have raised too many kids. Remember the video of the kid left sitting at the dinner table with a plate of peas in front of him he has to eat before he can leave. We all know who wins that one. If you really are worried about obesity how about regulating the fast food served by our nations thousands of joints where lots of these kids eat regularly. Instead we put in a program to control what they eat in school. How great a success was this , well daily you see school after school abandon the program for two reasons , the kids won't eat it and the dumpsters are fuller than ever.
From the days of zero tolerance till today, one program more stupid than the last has been pushed on our kids and teachers. Meantime media throws at the kids the untruth that you must go to college to succeed, while thousands of tech jobs go unfilled due to a lack of qualified people and college grads go without jobs or at best a job they did prepare for.
If a ships performance is subpar you relieve the Captain. We need to relieve a whole bunch at the top of the education system.
Today's offering takes the cake for stupid rules. This school board has forbidden the use of Chapstick on school grounds because it is an over the counter drug. Oh yes , it's a gateway drug to what I am not sure.
STORY IS HERE
Quite often you see stories on how overpaid/lazy/dumb/unqualified for their jobs from the mouths of (most of which) require nothing more than a political mouth spouting uneducated plans for their district that go way past stupid. These teacher that others like to complain about have to live with stupid rules like these on a daily basis trying to make the teachers so busy policing policies they had no say in formulating.
Administrators who like their jobs gladly enforce the stupid rules passed by these boards and then add their own brand of bullshit to the mix.
Dead brains are not limited to local folks , no the gang in Washington comes up with their own brand of stupid. The New Lunch program is a great example of unthinking done by our leaders. Any one who ever thought you can get kids to eat stuff they don't like as a steady diet must not have raised too many kids. Remember the video of the kid left sitting at the dinner table with a plate of peas in front of him he has to eat before he can leave. We all know who wins that one. If you really are worried about obesity how about regulating the fast food served by our nations thousands of joints where lots of these kids eat regularly. Instead we put in a program to control what they eat in school. How great a success was this , well daily you see school after school abandon the program for two reasons , the kids won't eat it and the dumpsters are fuller than ever.
From the days of zero tolerance till today, one program more stupid than the last has been pushed on our kids and teachers. Meantime media throws at the kids the untruth that you must go to college to succeed, while thousands of tech jobs go unfilled due to a lack of qualified people and college grads go without jobs or at best a job they did prepare for.
If a ships performance is subpar you relieve the Captain. We need to relieve a whole bunch at the top of the education system.
Friday, August 29, 2014
A BLACK HOOD
You have all seen prisoners with black hoods over their heads. The purpose to keep the individual in the dark about where he is or where he is going or what is going to happen to them.
It's easy to do to an individual but much harder to do to a large group. The corporations of the world have decided to put a hood over the entire world while they negotiate the infamous TPP (Trans Pacific Trade agreement) . You may have heard about this agreement but so damn little of what is in it. Bits and pieces have drifted out when some have seen small parts of the agreement have been leaked . If you were one of the 600 corporate shills who are participating in drafting this agreement you of course have full access to the agreement.
Congressman Grayson of Florida has fought his way into seeing the agreement but is forbidden to reveal what is in it. He didn't like what he saw but we may never get to know what is in it till it is already law.
Interesting enough several countries object to parts of the agreement , mostly over trying to protect parts of their economy that are important to the culture nature of the products they are trying to protect. Other countries involved want to throw them out of the agreement rather than allow them the protection they want. In the end it is my opinion this will be the death of the agreement as there are many of these disagreements in the wording right now. If the disagreeing nations are allowed to keep their protections the deal is dead .
The is a complicated agreement that effectively seeds all power to corporations and supersedes national agreements. READ HERE SOME OF WHAT IS CONTAINED IF THE AGREEMENT.
If they ever get to to passing Fast Track political process I implore you to fight with all your might to keep them from fast tracking this deal.. If opened to a full debate on the pieces of this deal it will never get ratified. Too many will be against pieces of the bill that just perhaps there will be enough opponents to the deal to overcome the zillions of dollars the corporations will be throwing at congress.
A small example of what this treaty will do you have seen demonstrated when Monsanto has successfully won settlements in court because a farmer was found to have GMO products in their fields when they were not supposed to.. Of course the GMO seeds had been blown there and not stolen didn't seem to matter and the farmer was driven out of business do to legal expenses.
Think of a world where all products were protected by the corporations who own them and any who oppose would be destroyed. Of course it would give the corporations exactly what they want, maximum profits with no competition.
Most likely this will come to the front after the election. Keep your head up and prepare to fight this with all your might. We cannot afford to loose this one.
It's easy to do to an individual but much harder to do to a large group. The corporations of the world have decided to put a hood over the entire world while they negotiate the infamous TPP (Trans Pacific Trade agreement) . You may have heard about this agreement but so damn little of what is in it. Bits and pieces have drifted out when some have seen small parts of the agreement have been leaked . If you were one of the 600 corporate shills who are participating in drafting this agreement you of course have full access to the agreement.
Congressman Grayson of Florida has fought his way into seeing the agreement but is forbidden to reveal what is in it. He didn't like what he saw but we may never get to know what is in it till it is already law.
Interesting enough several countries object to parts of the agreement , mostly over trying to protect parts of their economy that are important to the culture nature of the products they are trying to protect. Other countries involved want to throw them out of the agreement rather than allow them the protection they want. In the end it is my opinion this will be the death of the agreement as there are many of these disagreements in the wording right now. If the disagreeing nations are allowed to keep their protections the deal is dead .
The is a complicated agreement that effectively seeds all power to corporations and supersedes national agreements. READ HERE SOME OF WHAT IS CONTAINED IF THE AGREEMENT.
If they ever get to to passing Fast Track political process I implore you to fight with all your might to keep them from fast tracking this deal.. If opened to a full debate on the pieces of this deal it will never get ratified. Too many will be against pieces of the bill that just perhaps there will be enough opponents to the deal to overcome the zillions of dollars the corporations will be throwing at congress.
A small example of what this treaty will do you have seen demonstrated when Monsanto has successfully won settlements in court because a farmer was found to have GMO products in their fields when they were not supposed to.. Of course the GMO seeds had been blown there and not stolen didn't seem to matter and the farmer was driven out of business do to legal expenses.
Think of a world where all products were protected by the corporations who own them and any who oppose would be destroyed. Of course it would give the corporations exactly what they want, maximum profits with no competition.
Most likely this will come to the front after the election. Keep your head up and prepare to fight this with all your might. We cannot afford to loose this one.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
42 YEARS LATER AND I'M STILL PISSED
42 Years ago the USS Liberty was attacked by Israel in international waters. All attempts to come to the Liberty's aide was called back by President Johnson so as to not embarrass Israel. (unbelievable) Then to compound matters all military leaders and even the crew were ordered to keep their mouth shut about this incident.
HERE'S THE ACCOUNT IN GOOD DETAIL
To this day this incident keeps me from being sympathetic toward Israel. The incident itself is enough to enrage me but even deeper rage and disrespect of our leaders civilian and military has been caused by the cover up of our leaders to keep the countries support of Israel high.
The abandonment of our sailors by their whole chain of command is an act that I will never be able to forgive. On the other hand I am unable to understand why someone in the chain of command didn't rat out the operation.
I'm sure they would have vanished from the face of the earth but having provided the evidence to one of a few reporters who are brave enough to make it public. No one ratted the higher ups although the story pieces did surface the whole story never made it to the public.
When you loose trust of your leaders you lead and unsettled life. When you automatically question what comes from our leaders mouth it keeps you busy sorting out fact from fiction. With our MSM parroting what ever the offical word is your pretty much on your own to dig out the truth. Thanks to the Internet you can dig out scraps and eventually piece the story together. The one thing that gives you a starting point is you can pretty well count on the company line being a lie.
HERE'S THE ACCOUNT IN GOOD DETAIL
To this day this incident keeps me from being sympathetic toward Israel. The incident itself is enough to enrage me but even deeper rage and disrespect of our leaders civilian and military has been caused by the cover up of our leaders to keep the countries support of Israel high.
The abandonment of our sailors by their whole chain of command is an act that I will never be able to forgive. On the other hand I am unable to understand why someone in the chain of command didn't rat out the operation.
I'm sure they would have vanished from the face of the earth but having provided the evidence to one of a few reporters who are brave enough to make it public. No one ratted the higher ups although the story pieces did surface the whole story never made it to the public.
When you loose trust of your leaders you lead and unsettled life. When you automatically question what comes from our leaders mouth it keeps you busy sorting out fact from fiction. With our MSM parroting what ever the offical word is your pretty much on your own to dig out the truth. Thanks to the Internet you can dig out scraps and eventually piece the story together. The one thing that gives you a starting point is you can pretty well count on the company line being a lie.
Friday, August 15, 2014
WHAT AUSTERITY HAS DONE TO ALL OF THE EU
It had to happen. Any econ 101 student knows what will happen if you load up a country in additional debt to pay off criminal bankers who through the great American derivative scheme drove those countries into debt they couldn't pay. So in desperate measures had to sell off a countries treasures, public utilities, ports and all else of value to the bankers of the EU and still that hasn't been enough.
So the creditors of the EU have driven them into a Greater depression with negative growth, high unemployment , loss of export sales , and on and on. Things look glum indeed with no way clear of the problem. So an entire continent has been driven to their knees by crooked bankers.
The problem is not limited to the EU. Take a good hard look at Detroit and you can examine up close the same effects being seen in the EU right here in the good ole USA.
The PTB will not be satisfied till they have the whole world crawling on their knees begging for scraps. A once great America is turning into a third world country with even worse effects predicted down the road. Future job predictions show a glim picture of future jobs on top of the horrible loss of industrial production in this country. With 23.3 percent unemployment at present with more to come down the road. The jobs that have been generated are mostly low wage service jobs . Things are so bad that even Walmart is having trouble quarter to quarter.
Predictions down the road talk of robots replacing jobs like customer service, bus drivers, cab drivers, cooks, wait persons, almost all assembly jobs, nurses , doctors and on and on and on. Which leaves one to ask "What the hell are all these folks going to do for income?"
The few who are reaping the benefits of this destruction are not concerned that the masses will have no way to keep their money machines going. On investigations they really think they can put us all into slavery and still have all their money and growth. History shows that when driven to desperation lots of things are possible.. The greedy of the time seldom can hold on to what they have and ours will not be able to either.
Of course all this could have been avoided if we had kept the regulations in effect that were placed to keep another great depression. Those regulations worked for 50 years till rules were taken away piece by piece starting with Regan starting the ball rolling with the destruction of the Air Traffic Controllers union. From that victory onto removing all the regulation controlling markets. Dose after dose of trade treaties facilitating the destruction of almost all manufacturing jobs in this country. Even once lucrative jobs on Wall Street have now been replaced with computers that do something over 80% of daily trades. No brokers needed, just turn your computer on and trade , trade, trade.
Creating generations of people with no hope of rising out of poverty, slavery , or whatever name you put to it, find a way to change it back to how it was. We shall just have to wait and see how it changes , knowing that it will get better in the future . We have done it before now we have to do it again.
The Asian countries have received most of the benefits of these acts as far as the common worker is concerned. However a closer look at China, India and other countries in the Asian arena sees the eventual downfall of all these countries do to critical shortages in breathable air, drinkable water, and a deficit of power to push them to even more growth. As those problems get worse you will see jobs return to the US but will this growth pick up those who have been left behind these last 30 years?
So the creditors of the EU have driven them into a Greater depression with negative growth, high unemployment , loss of export sales , and on and on. Things look glum indeed with no way clear of the problem. So an entire continent has been driven to their knees by crooked bankers.
The problem is not limited to the EU. Take a good hard look at Detroit and you can examine up close the same effects being seen in the EU right here in the good ole USA.
The PTB will not be satisfied till they have the whole world crawling on their knees begging for scraps. A once great America is turning into a third world country with even worse effects predicted down the road. Future job predictions show a glim picture of future jobs on top of the horrible loss of industrial production in this country. With 23.3 percent unemployment at present with more to come down the road. The jobs that have been generated are mostly low wage service jobs . Things are so bad that even Walmart is having trouble quarter to quarter.
Predictions down the road talk of robots replacing jobs like customer service, bus drivers, cab drivers, cooks, wait persons, almost all assembly jobs, nurses , doctors and on and on and on. Which leaves one to ask "What the hell are all these folks going to do for income?"
The few who are reaping the benefits of this destruction are not concerned that the masses will have no way to keep their money machines going. On investigations they really think they can put us all into slavery and still have all their money and growth. History shows that when driven to desperation lots of things are possible.. The greedy of the time seldom can hold on to what they have and ours will not be able to either.
Of course all this could have been avoided if we had kept the regulations in effect that were placed to keep another great depression. Those regulations worked for 50 years till rules were taken away piece by piece starting with Regan starting the ball rolling with the destruction of the Air Traffic Controllers union. From that victory onto removing all the regulation controlling markets. Dose after dose of trade treaties facilitating the destruction of almost all manufacturing jobs in this country. Even once lucrative jobs on Wall Street have now been replaced with computers that do something over 80% of daily trades. No brokers needed, just turn your computer on and trade , trade, trade.
Creating generations of people with no hope of rising out of poverty, slavery , or whatever name you put to it, find a way to change it back to how it was. We shall just have to wait and see how it changes , knowing that it will get better in the future . We have done it before now we have to do it again.
The Asian countries have received most of the benefits of these acts as far as the common worker is concerned. However a closer look at China, India and other countries in the Asian arena sees the eventual downfall of all these countries do to critical shortages in breathable air, drinkable water, and a deficit of power to push them to even more growth. As those problems get worse you will see jobs return to the US but will this growth pick up those who have been left behind these last 30 years?
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
OUR MORAL COMAPSS IS BROKEN
One could always hope that it only appears broken do to the Information Age resources we have today. With 850 channels on my satellite TV to all the info available on the net we see daily acts of violence in much larger numbers then in the past.
However things seem to be a bit more complicated than that. For instance violence by cops seems to be a lot worse today than anytime in my 77 years. Daily it seems another case of unnecessary police brutality hits the tv. When you arm even the smallest police department like a Seal team and train them in their tactics I guess we shouldn't be surprised at the outcome.
The leadership in all aspects of our society has demonstrated to us in the last 30 years that a huge majority of them are dishonest to flat out thieves and liars. From government to leaders of industry we see icons of the country telling flat out lies and robbing us blind.
Being straight out lied to to attack Iraq, and then told we do not torture (while holding circle meeting in the White House to discuss methods of torture to be used on a particular victim), to being told that Global trade and all the treaties that sent most of our industrial base overseas, leaving mostly low wage service jobs for some of out workers.
Now after 30 years of this nonsense we see the results of all these lies. America being classified as a third world nation kinda tells the whole story. With the elite strutting across our screens pushing their chests out proclaiming how great they are while at the same time chiding us at if we are not making it it's our fault.
History shows us that when you push a Nation's population to it's brink of destruction bad shit happens, not a threat , just a look at the past to tell you where we are headed..
So we most of our leaders corrupt and being supported by our equally corrupt media we are left to flop around on deck like a fish out of water. I just wish to stay around till the bad guys get the ole heave ho..
However things seem to be a bit more complicated than that. For instance violence by cops seems to be a lot worse today than anytime in my 77 years. Daily it seems another case of unnecessary police brutality hits the tv. When you arm even the smallest police department like a Seal team and train them in their tactics I guess we shouldn't be surprised at the outcome.
The leadership in all aspects of our society has demonstrated to us in the last 30 years that a huge majority of them are dishonest to flat out thieves and liars. From government to leaders of industry we see icons of the country telling flat out lies and robbing us blind.
Being straight out lied to to attack Iraq, and then told we do not torture (while holding circle meeting in the White House to discuss methods of torture to be used on a particular victim), to being told that Global trade and all the treaties that sent most of our industrial base overseas, leaving mostly low wage service jobs for some of out workers.
Now after 30 years of this nonsense we see the results of all these lies. America being classified as a third world nation kinda tells the whole story. With the elite strutting across our screens pushing their chests out proclaiming how great they are while at the same time chiding us at if we are not making it it's our fault.
History shows us that when you push a Nation's population to it's brink of destruction bad shit happens, not a threat , just a look at the past to tell you where we are headed..
So we most of our leaders corrupt and being supported by our equally corrupt media we are left to flop around on deck like a fish out of water. I just wish to stay around till the bad guys get the ole heave ho..
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